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Flashing meteor that exploded over Norway landed somewhere in a nearby forest The hunt for fragments of an "unusually large meteor" that lit up the skies over Norway on 25 July has begun. The meteor awakened awestruck residents of the country's capital city, Oslo, with the sound of a large explosion. Footage shows the fireball from the ...
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'Project Galileo' will search for evidence of extraterrestrial life from the technology it leaves behind The project aims to address the question "are we the smartest kids on our cosmic block?" Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, a co-founder of the initiative, said in a news conference about the big announcement today (July 26).
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Steven Weinberg, Nobel-winning physicist who united principal forces of nature, dies at 88 During a long career spent in the exploration of the most basic problems of physics and cosmology, he won lasting renown as a creator of an "electroweak" theory that unifies electromagnetism and the "weak" force that operates on the subatomic scale and is ...
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Harvard professor leading research on existence of UFOs and alien civilizations The Galileo Project, led by Harvard astronomy professor Avi Loeb, will search for a record of alien civilizations capable of technology surpassing what we know on Earth. It will use telescope observations, missions that send cameras into space and more..
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50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon Dave Scott was not about to pass by an interesting rock without stopping. It was July 31, 1971, and he and Jim Irwin, his fellow Apollo 15 astronaut, were the first people to drive on the moon. After a 6-hour inaugural jaunt in the new lunar rover, the two were ...
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Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg's Pointless Universe Steven Weinberg, who died last week at the age of 88, was not only a Nobel laureate physicist but also one of the most eloquent science writers of the last half century. His most famous (or perhaps infamous) statement can be found on the second-to-last page ...
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NASA Investigates Renaming James Webb Space Telescope after Anti-LGBT+ Claims NASA is considering whether to rename its flagship astronomical observatory, given reports alleging that James Webb, after whom it is named, was involved in persecuting gay and lesbian people during his career in government. Keeping his name on the ...
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Astronomers uncover briefest supernova-powered gamma-ray burst Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the implosion of a massive star. Using the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLab, astronomers identified the cause of this 0.6-second flurry of gamma ...
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Hubble finds first evidence of water vapor on Jupiter's moon Ganymede Scientists used new and archival datasets from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the discovery, published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Previous research has offered circumstantial evidence that Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system ...
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NASA detects water vapor on Jupiter's Ganymede — the largest moon in the solar system Researchers made the discovery using both new and archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which is back in action after a computer anomaly suddenly shut down the 32-year-old system for a month. They published their findings this week in the ...
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